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From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson)
Newsgroups: net.text
Subject: Re: WYSIWYG
Message-ID: <5318@elsie.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Dec-85 13:25:33 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 24 13:25:33 1985
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Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD
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Summary: Trumman Capote on WYSIWYG

> This, to me, is one of the strongest reasons why I don't use or like WYSIWYG.
> I prefer to concentrate on what my words say, and not on what they look like,
> and I want a display that will not distract me with glittery appearance
> while I am working on content.

I'll second the motion.  Truman Capote once dismissed a Jack Kerouac work with
the comment "That's not writing--that's typing."  Too often these days, the
appropriate translation would be "That's not writing--that's typography."
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